New Time Waster

I guess I have told you that I have a lot of time to kill at work and spend a lot of that time reading news sites in the net. Well, whether I told you or not, I do. I have now found a new time waster, net news quizzes.

UPDATE:
here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081015/sc_livescience/americansflunksimple3questionpoliticalsurvey
Is an article that says "Americans Flunk Simple 3-Question Political Survey"
The survey, conducted between April 30 and June 1 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, measured the political knowledge of 3,612 U.S. adults. Participants were asked to name the controlling party of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. secretary of state and Great Britain's prime minister.
Overall, just 18 percent of participants answered all three questions correctly.

Thanks to all the time I waste on reading the news online and watching the so called 'news' shows on TV, I got all these correct.

My favorite is the MSNBC quiz because I watch it sometimes and usually know the answers. It is here
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4250964/
I made 80% last week and 70% this week.

This one
http://pewresearch.org/newsiq/
at the Pew Institute was fun. I made 83%. I liked this one cause it rated you with the national average like those tests the kids take in school...

The New York Times on was hard, I think because it was more international
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/quiz/

Reuters here
http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/newsquiz

And NPR here
http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/quiz/
I had the wrong link here, but I have fixed it. On this one there is only 1 question. You click on Previous Quiz to get another question, and it keeps track of all the questions.

Then there it the Sarah Palin IQ quiz here
http://75.125.110.195/us2/US1/?c=US&a=51
I got here from a search that said are you smarter than Sarah Palin, but on the page it does not say that. On this one you have to keep track of your answers and then hunt them out on the net because at the end it tells you to put in your phone number to find out your score. Don't give them your phone number. You can take the test again and again if you want. After I thought about it I changed a couple of my answers the second time I took it. The second time I think I got them all right, but I am not really sure of the Human / Feline answer. None of the answers seemed to fit exactly right, but only one seemed to be possible.

I think all these have the same quiz for a week, so if you don't like your score you can try again. I guess me and Helen both have a lot of time to waste casue she has tried all of these.